A large proportion of the best citizen hate his despotism.
Tocqueville discusses how equality of conditions can breed" individualism", which in turn leads to despotism.
It has been said of old, that in a despotism there is at most But one patriot, the despot himself.
and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism ...
The American people (and Rockefeller as well) had been taught a tragic lesson in the consequences of industrial despotism and absentee capitalism.
One of these forces was dictatorship or despotism.
In essence it is the howl of the die-hards for bourgeois despotism.
Around 1911, because of revolutionary propaganda, the political tradition after Qin Dynasty was erased in one stroke with the four words of despotism and darkness.
Through revolution, the abandonment of personal despotism may be engendered and the end of profit-seeking and domineering oppression may occur, but never a true reform of the state of mind.
Government by a single person having unlimited power;despotism.
But it was not the personality of Chiang Kai-shek that shaped the nature of the despotism, but the nature of the dictatorship that shaped Chiang Kai-shek.
autocracy:Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism.
Furthermore, the classical philosophers found out, by successive steps, that law must be a bulwark against anarchy as well as against despotism.
There was nothing to fear from the Egyptians, accustomed as they were to despotism since the Pharaonic age.
Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.
How does Tocqueville characterize the" despotism" that democratic nations have to fear?
